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Russel Wright Home Decorators Gaytime Platters

Another find while out and about today! Gotta love a pattern name that reminds us of a more innocent time. 

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Little Pitchers

American Modern plastic tea set, from the Ideal Toy Co.
'American Modern' plastic tea set

It's well known that the Ideal Toy Co. made plastic, child-sized replicas of Russel Wright's wildly successful American Modern dinnerware.

Lady Arnold / Arnoldware plastic bowls

Here comes the ice cream!

Found these today at a thrift store. They didn't look like they'd ever been used.

Northern Residential

Residential cup and saucer, in confetti
Confetti

I'm sure I'm not the only Modisher with a nice stash of RW Melamine that is both admired and unused. (For me, the likelihood of discoloration from tea or coffee is off-putting).

Russel Wright Melmac

Russel Wright Melmac
Russel Wright Melmac

Russel Wright Melmac
Wright's exclusive line for Home Decorators, Inc of Newark, NY using Residential molds

Colorway iunknown

Heller Vignelli

Heller Vignelli
Heller Massimo and Lella Vignelli

I have a fairly gigantic (and growing) collection of this ubiquitous melamine line in every color, and thought a glamour shot of the iconic red backstamp might be worthy of Vignelli's greatness.

American Telecom

Genie telephone

Something I bought a while back - makes me miss "real" telephones.  My holy grail phone is still an Ericophon, though.

Heller Max Mug by Massimo Vignelli

Heller Max Mug by Massimo Vignelli

Set of four Heller Max mugs in red.